To mark Charles Darwin’s 211th birthday, some thoughts on his 1871 classic, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, an unlikely anecdote about a snail, plus all the usual book reviews and links to Darwin-related news stories.
Writing tagged: ‘expression of emotions’
Newsletter No. 4: Giant leaps
Apollo 11 · Origin of Species · Richard Owen · Charles Lyell · sloths · lice · deaf moths · pregnant lizards · puppy eyes · palaeoanthropology · book reviews · heads on spikes!
An embarrassment of Richards
In which my head appears on a spike (six times).
Book review: ‘The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals’ by Charles Darwin
How animals and people express emotions, and what this tells us about our ancestry.
Blind testing
A interesting new study lends support to Darwin's suggestion that certain facial expressions might be inherited.